The Status Syndrome
Subtitle: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Publisher: Times Books
Published: August 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780805073706
Subjects: Sociology; Political Science; Science/Mathematics; International Relations - Arms Control; Science; Sociology - General; Social status; Healthy Living; Science / General; General; Health aspects; Longevity
First sentence: In La Bohème, Puccini's wonderful operatic teatjerker, after the most brilliant pickup line in all opera, Rodolfo and Mimi fall in love.
Description: A noted epidemiologist demonstrates how social inequalities cause ill health and how opportunities for full social participation can mitigate the effects of the psychological experience of inequality.